Nonvascular smooth muscle α-actin positive cells in the choroid of higher primates

Current Eye Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-6

  May, Chr Albrecht ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Institute of Anatomy II   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choroid; Eye; Immunohistochemistry; Sclera; Whole mounts

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOROID PLEXUS; CILIARY MUSCLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA; MONKEY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE SHEATH; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; SCLERA; SPINDLE CELL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASCULARIZATION;

ACTINS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CATS; CATTLE; CHOROID; DOGS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PRIMATES; RABBITS; SCLERA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

EID: 0041704884     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/ceyr.27.2.1.15459     Document Type: Article

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